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(No Model.)

.J. E. MoB'RIDE. FENDER FOR (JARS.

Patented Jan 8, 1895.

' zen of the United States, residing in the city,

, cars, whichis intended to prevent persons and I is rounding curves..tained by the construction and arrangements hereinafter described andclaimed.

attached thereto, and shown in vertical secder and the means by whichitis mounted upon UNrTED STATES ATENT FE QE.

JOHN E. MCBRIDE, or NEW-YORK, N. Y.

FENDER FOR CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 532,086, dated January8, 1895.

Application filed February 20, 1894. Serial No. 500,855- (No model.)

To (ZZZ whom it may concern.- Be it known that I, JOHN E. MCBRIDE, aciticounty, and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Fenders for Railway-Oars, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to a fender for street animals that may be in thepath of movement of the car, from being run over and injured thereby.

The objects of the invention are to provide the car with a fender, whichwill retain substantially the same vertical position with relation tothe track regardless of the vertical movements or tiltings of the car,and which will follow the direction of and cover the track at all times,and especially as the car These objectsare at- Referring to theaccompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents, in side elevation, a portionof a street-railway car with the fender tion. Fig. 2 represents a topview of the same. Fig. 3 shows on a larger scale, the fenthe carplatform, the horizontal netting be ing removed. Fig. at represents anunder view of the same. Fig. 5 shows in vertical section a portion ofthe roadway and the center rails of a cable-road, with one of the formsof guide roller, which is attached to the fender, in engagement withsaid rails.

X represents the carupon the platform X of which the fender is mounted.This fender as shown, is of angular form in plan, as shown in Fig. 2,and has a suitable framework A, upon which is secured a downwardly. andforwardly inclined covering G, of metal or other suitable material, tothe base of which maybe attached a horizontal netted frame F, whichoccupies a position slightly raised'above the track and road-bed.

For attaching the fender to the platform, the latter is providedwith avertical rod P, which is secured to the platform in any suitable manner,as by an upper stay or bracket, B, and a lower one E. Upon this rod thefen-' Although the weight of the fender may be made suflicient to keepit in the desired vertical relation to the rails and road-bed, yet Iprefer to employ a coiled spring S, to assist' in this particular, whichspring surrounds the rod, P, and has a hearing at its upper end upon astationary bracket or sleeve B, attached to the dash-board of theplatform, or to the rod P, and at its lower end upon a part of thefender frame, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. This spring may be incased,'ifdesired, in a cup-shaped sleeve K, attached to the bracket B", as shownin Fig. 3.

For retaining the fender in line with the track, rail-engaging means areemployed, which preferably"'consist of one or more wheels or rollers.When applied to a cablecar, a wheel or roller W, having a periphericalflange W, adapted to enter the slot H, between the rails 1 I, Fig. 5,may be attached to the fender-frame, as by a bracket 0, which ispreferably pivoted at its forward end at D, to the frame A, the saidwheel acting as a guide to the fender. The frame A is also.

When attached to an ordinary or electric car, the fender is intended tobe furnished with two Wheels, W shown by dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2,each engaging the running rails, respectively, of the track; and thewheels W may be used in addition to the wheel W on a cable road, ifdesired. I

From the foregoing, it will be understood that the railengaging means,or guide wheel or wheels, will cause the fender to follow the directionof the track and to overlie both run ning rails at all times, the fenderturning upon the rod P, when the car rounds curves; and that said rodwill play or move in the frame A, of the fender as the car tilts upwardor downward, and the vertical relation of the fender to the track willnot be disturbed by ,suh tilting.

v The car may, and is intended to, be furnished with a fender at eachend.

In the practical application of my invention I do not wish to beconfined to the particular shape of the fender, nor to the exactlocation shown, as it may be attached with more or less outwardprojection, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a car-platform, of a stationary vertical rodsecured thereto; a fender mounted on said rod and capable of abodily-vertical movement and a laterallyswinging movement on said rod;and a railengaging guide-wheel or wheels mounted on the fender to guidethe same, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with a car-platform, of a stationary vertical rodsecured thereto; a fender mounted on said rod and capable of abodily-vertical movement and a laterallyswinging movement on said rod; aspring for pressing the fender toward the road-bed; and a rail-engagingwheel or wheels mounted on the fender to guide the same, substantiallyas set forth.

3. The combination with a car, of a fender mounted thereon and havingvertical and laterally swinging movements with relation thereto, andfurnished with a centrally located rail engaging wheel having aperipherical flange, and pivoted to the fender, substantially as setforth.

JOHN E. MCBRIDE Witnesses:

CHAS. W. FORCES, W. H. GRAHAM.

